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Diamond drilling in the Edith River uranium-bearing area, Northern Territory

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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In January, 1954, the Bureau of Mineral Resources began diamond drilling in the Edith River, N.T., to test the grade and extent of uranium mineralisation in two uranium-bearing deposits. The uranium mineral, mate-autunite, occurs in narrow siliceous reef formations. Surface and drill core samples all returned less than 0.1% U3O8. Radiometric logging of the holes showed no significant increase of radioactivity with depth. Shaft sinking proved the deposits to be small and lenticular.

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Title Diamond drilling in the Edith River uranium-bearing area, Northern Territory
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/c84a2748-d811-42c6-bd9d-bf1b8e7717f2
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Diamond drilling in the Edith River uranium-bearing area, Northern Territory". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/diamond-drilling-in-the-edith-river-uranium-bearing-area-northern-territory